Blue Bottle🇳🇿

This is my task2 challenge. I’ve tried to solve this question, but my result wasn’t good. Although there was no error after testing, I only got 33% score.😰

The summary of question shows as below:

I was given a non-empty unsorted array such as: A = [6, 10, 6, 9, 7, 8]. The amplitude of a subsequence of array A is the difference between the largest and the smallest element in this subsequence. The amplitude of the empty subsequence is assumed to be 0.

These are some of the subsequences of array A and their amplitudes:
[6, 6, 7] has amplitude 1;
[6, 10, 6, 9, 7, 8] has amplitude 4;
[6, 6, 7, 8] has amplitude 2.

If this subsequence of array is called quasi-constant, it means its amplitude does not exceed 1. In the example above, subsequence [6, 6, 7] is the longest possible quasi-constant subsequence of array A.

Now, you are expected to provide a method that takes in an array and returns the maximum number of quasi-constant subsequence of array. In above example, the function should return 3.

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Last week, I received an email from a recruiter who asked me to do Codility assessment. I had to answer three questions within 245 minutes. Although I’ve heard about Codility, this was my first Codility test experience. To be honest, it was really difficult to me.

These questions were not easy to understand, so it took me some time to understand each question. Then I tried to answer the questions by Java or Python programming language. Even though I eventually found the solutions and summited the answers, my average score was not good enough. When I finished this assessment, I was very disappointed about myself. I even thought whether I should keep a programmer job.😂😂😂

It seems that more and more companies like to use Codility assessments to evaluate developers, but I don’t think it is a best way to test a programmer’s coding/programmer abilities.

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